[wplug] Helping an elderly grandmother

[David Tessitor]

Hi,

I have a friend, an active elderly grandmother, who is using Linux and 
loving it when her webmail works correctly.  She travels frequently to 
see the kids and grand kids and to go to various conventions. I thought 
it would be nice for her to take an installation of her Mozilla T-bird 
and Firebird with her on a flash drive.  I also think it would be good 
to keep a back up of her other data on it so she can work on it wherever 
she goes and in case her hard drive ever fails. She has a relatively 
small number of files for organizational letters, agendas, etc. few 
dozen.  Her home partition is 1G and is only using a small part of it.  
I bought her a 1G flash drive on sale and was thinking it would be nice 
if she could simply plug it into a USB port when home and have her data 
automatically saved to both the hard disk and flash drive without her 
needing to remember to save everything twice in two different places.

So this is a twofer:

1) I need suggestions on setting up her T-bird on part of the flash 
drive so she can use it cross platform (apple, ms, & linux) with her 
kids various computers when on the road.

2) Is there a way to set up her Linux system to automatically save her 
email and Open Office files to both her hard drive and flash drive 
without her needing to think about it?

I'd really appreciate help with this.  It would be a big step toward 
advancing Linux on the elderly grandmother front, which is the ultimate 
test of Linux usability and acceptability.

Dave